Americana? Apparently their tour happens to be called the 'Fuck Americana Tour'! The Felice Brothers are an impressive set of American musicians, roots related and with sufficient busking experience. We recall with pleasure their official debut from 2007: 'Tonight At The Arizona', already with all that fantastic vocal harmony and solid 'songs' like those also delivered by The Band (plus of course a song like 'Ballad Of Lou The Welterweight' and a fantastic phrase like 'Powder Your Nose, pull off your pantyhose, let me love you from behind, my darling'.)
The Felice Brothers have now completed their new CD 'Celebration, Florida', on Fat Possum, out here on Munich (via V2) and first single 'Ponzi' is certainly yet another idiosyncratic winner.
For those who also get a kick out of Wilco, My Morning Jacket, Ryan Bingham, Avett Brothers, Bob Dylan... The Felice Brothers fit right into that stubborn genre.
Thus also for those keen on solid and sensationally sung English lyrics. Here's another quote from their own site: '…what separates The Felices’ mud-stomping folk from that of their peers is their no-winking honesty – the sense that these songs and the places and people they’re singing about aren’t literary devices but actual people doing their damnedest to rage against the growing darkness.' – Filter Good Music Guide, 2009